Lab in Psycholinguistics

Calendar

week	Topic	Key Dates
1	Introduction to the Course: Experimental Methods, Constraints on Language, Mechanical Turk, R/statistics	Problem set 1 handed out
2	Quantitative Methods: Quantitative Syntax, Descriptive Statistics and Plotting
3	Language as Communication, Part 1	Problem set 1 due Problem set 2 handed out Projects handed out
4	Language as Communication, Part 2	Problem set 2 due Problem set 3 handed out
5	Language Processing Over a Noisy Channel, Part 1
6	Language Processing Over a Noisy Channel, Part 2	Problem set 4 due Paper 1 draft 1 due
7	What Makes a Long-Distance Extraction Unacceptable?
8	No class during spring break
9	Pragmatics: The Use of Referring Expressions	Paper 1 draft 2 due — optional resubmission
10	The On-Line Computation of Pragmatic Information, Student Presentations of Projects
11	Student Presentations of Projects
12	The Foreign Language Effect: Thinking in a Froeign Tongue Reduces Decision Biases
13	Syntactic Priming	Paper 3 due
14	Color Language, Help with Projects and Oral Presentations
15	Language and Thought: Number
16	Culture and Language: Recursion	Final Paper Due